Question: How can it be that a feeling like envy is a force that advances us toward the goal?

Answer: It is not just envy that drives me to my goal. There is nothing bad or good about me at all because that is how I evaluate my qualities and states. In reality, there is nothing that was created in vain, nothing unnecessary for attaining the goal.

We may feel ourselves to be anything at all, but as we learn, we descended into this world from the highest degree, and everything that exists in us now will later, with the help of screens (Masachim), become the very best qualities.

Therefore we should not engage in correcting character traits but only in striving toward the goal—and then all our qualities, all parts of the desire, will serve only as help.

A person must not hide or suppress any of his desires; this is not the method of Kabbalah! Kabbalah says the opposite. If a person suppresses something within himself, he thereby kills a part of the creation within him.

We must only follow the law: “The light contained in the Torah returns one to the source.” That is, during study and during various activities in the group when all my thoughts are about correction, the surrounding light (Ohr Makif), the light that returns to the source, shines upon me. There is no other way of correction.

A person should not think that he is capable of evaluating which of his qualities are good and which are bad or what kind of correction each requires. Otherwise, he will begin to approach correction selectively, and decide what to correct in himself and what not to correct. There is no greater foolishness than to claim that he understands anything about this!

A person must act only where he has a point of free choice, that is, to organize for himself an environment that will influence him. In any case, he needs some external force that will pull and push him forward.

The external force is either the environment or the Creator. But unfortunately, I cannot yet influence the Creator so that He will help me; I do not yet have a desire sufficient for Him to respond. He responds only to a complete, perfect desire.

It is precisely the environment that builds within me this complete desire, so that afterward I may turn to the Creator, and then the light will return me to the source.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/26, Rabash, “What Does It Mean That Before the Egyptian Minister Fell, Their Outcry Was Not Answered, in the Work?”

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Question: If I feel that the group is not doing what it is supposed to do, does that mean that I am not ready for this situation, or is the group truly not doing it? How can I know whether this is my problem?

Answer: The group must carry out its action toward you if you commit to carrying out your actions toward it.

We are talking about both external actions and internal ones. External actions by themselves mean nothing! If we perform only external actions, it will just be an enterprise.

That is why internal actions are extremely important here. What do I want from the group? For what purpose do I invest my desire, energy, and efforts into it? Am I doing this for no reason? I want to reach something through my efforts!

With my actions, I am essentially demanding from the group that it fulfill all my hopes, that it advance me, awakens me. Otherwise, why am I doing all this? Just to pass the time?

I must receive something from the group. The question is: What am I asking for?

And this is what the group must teach me: what to ask from it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

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Faith is a means to reach the inner light of the Torah. Faith is a Kli of bestowal, the quality of Bina. It should be the foundation, and therefore it is said: “The righteous will live by his faith.”

Faith above reason is a means of turning to the Creator to obtain qualities similar to His. But this is not the ultimate goal. Indeed, faith above reason is the goal of study because we want to achieve correction, the qualities of bestowal. But in fact, it is only a means.

After all, the Torah is called the Torah of life, and one must study with the intention of Lishma, for the sake of the Torah, and not Lishmo, for the sake of the Creator. That is, I want not only to become like the Creator by building a Kli, but also to fill this Kli with exactly the content that corresponds to the Creator, so that this content becomes my “life and longevity.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/18/26, Rabash, “What Are Torah and Work in the Way of the Creator?”

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Question: If I feel comfortable in the group, does that mean I have nothing to give it?

Answer: If you feel good and comfortable, then in that state you certainly cannot give anything to the group.

Only when a person feels tension from lacking the goal, when they question the meaning of life, can they contribute something. If a person has no desire, they are as if dead. When there is no desire, that is called death!

In that case, one must delve more deeply into study and into actions that are performed without intention since in that state one cannot add intention, and then the actions themselves will lead to intention. These are actions in which one unites with others and receives their desires from friends.

Let them engage in dissemination and they will receive a boost of spirit. Let them study and they will receive inspiration from the author of the book. Let them go work in the kitchen and they will serve the group and receive inspiration from the group.

A person must invest themselves in something at the level they are capable of, even at the inanimate level, in order to awaken at a higher level—vegetative, animate, and speaking. A person can always invest themselves, even without any intentions.

Thus, someone who does not create frameworks that obligate them to return to actions in relation to the group is not valuing time, not shortening it, and advances only sporadically.

Therefore if you lack work, take on translating articles, work on some material…do something!

Every group, no matter where it is located in the world, must, even artificially, build such frameworks for itself so that each person has some responsibility toward the group and the group toward the individual. Otherwise, if we feel free, we behave according to the desire to receive.

This is the very first and most important thing a group must establish for itself: a strict order of actions that allows no deviation so that no one feels free even for a moment, even in their free time.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/8/26, Rabash, “And There Was Evening and There Was Morning”

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